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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Folville CrossCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 1.632 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Leicestershire and Rutland Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Melton Mowbray Nearest Village: Ashby Folville
Map Ref: SK715134
Latitude: 52.713546N Longitude: 0.943036W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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This 3' high, 4 sided cross-shaft stands at the edge of a field to the west side of a crossroads on the parish boundary.
It is probable that it is the eroded remains of a deliberately worked shaft, although at first glance it looks like a standing stone.
Early in fifteenth century Sir Roger Beler, a judge and baron of the Exchequer, was killed in a duel with Sir Eustace de Folville (or, more probably, simply murdered) and local tradition says that this cross shaft marks the site. The location is eminently suited as a meeting place for such an encounter, being on the parish boundary as well as at a crossroads. The Folville family have been described as 'the most lawless gang of bandits that ever dominated the Leicestershire countryside since the Norman conquest' and their pastimes included cattle rustling, kidnapping, intimidation, robbery and murder.
Based on the description by, and used by kind permission of, Bob Trubshaw, from his Interactive Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland CD-ROM.
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